Karaoke Karen and friends
Karaoke Karen used to grace the streets of Wellingborough (Northants) most afternoons and all day on Saturdays. She was a young lady who lived in the sheltered housing in the town centre, and used to stand in the pedestrian zone and dance along to tapes played loudly on her "ghetto blaster" ad infinitum. In fact "karaoke" was not the right word because she did no singing, just mad dancing, but that was the name the locals gave her. Eventually, the council stopped her because she had no public entertainment licence for the commercial recorded music she used.

Great Yarmouth Robot Man - you've seen those people in Covent Garden dressed as "robots" who stay still and only move when you turn round? One guy who does a similar thing lives in Great Yarmouth, and does he get changed when he gets there? No, he travels by train in full costume. One day I watched as the guard asked for his ticket. He jerkily turned round and said something like "ticket... processing..." and then, accompanied by hissing sounds, slowly removed his ticket for inspection. His arms were all covered in little tubes and wires, and he spent the rest of the journey repairing them with superglue, complete with hisses and jerky movements. The funny thing is that the guy (underneath the suit) looks the spitting image of anothe bloke at work.

Charles Roberts is a resident of Kettering but is better known as Elvis or Benny Hill, due to his habit of walking round the town centre dressed as one or the other, accompanied by his wife in her wheelchair, and his little dog on a lead. Far from being a "nutter" he is a local "character" and collects money for charity as well.
( Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Fri 17 Sep 2004, 0:48, Reply)